Labor & Employment Law Journal

Library OrientationAugust 16, 2015

Orientation Session Goals

Policies and procedures Borrowing items for journal

Commonly used databases Library catalog Journal Finder Databases

Library Services Interlibrary loan Axinn document delivery

Borrowing Items

Photocopy in the journal office Can use scanner in library Check items out under the journal account

Use your own account for note/paper research! To borrow items from Axinn, get the journal’s

library card from the law library circulation desk

Typical Types of Documents

a. Scholarship i. Books ii. Book chapters (E-book download

instructions on the journal cite checking libguide) iii. Articles iv. Newspapers

b. Legislative materials c. Cases and decisions

Commonly Used Databases

Library Catalog (Lexicat) HeinOnline WorldCat Law Library databases Axinn Library databases Article Finding:

Journal Finder Index to Legal Periodicals

Library Catalog (Lexicat)

Available document types: books book chapters newspaper/bar journals journals cases decisions (reporters) legislative materials

Access from Library Homepage > Research & Instruction > Library Catalog or http://libweb.hofstra.edu/

HeinOnline

Available documents types: Law journal articles Legislative material Bar journals Cases (Fastcase) Legislative materials

HeinOnline

Searchable database of selected law review/journal titles and other libraries

WorldCat

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and materials

Allows users to search the collections of libraries in your community and around the world

Can search for books, articles, newspapers, journals, legislative material, videos and other digital content

WorldCat

WorldCat

Law Library Databases

Labor and Employment Law

BNA Labor Relations Reporter CCH Labor Law Reporter (Westlaw)  NLRB website E-CFR

NLRB Decisions-WWW.NLRB.ORG

Axinn Library Databases

Types of documents: Non-legal articles Interdisciplinary articles Newspapers Statistics

Axinn Library Databases

Journal Finder

Types of documents: Journals Newspapers Magazines

Provides access to legal and non-legal journals, magazines, newspapers that are subscribed to by the University Not exhaustive-MUST check Library Catalog!

Journal Finder

Index to Legal Periodicals

Types of documents (citations and full text): Scholarly articles-both legal and non-legal Symposia Jurisdictional surveys Court decisions Books

Index to Legal Periodicals

Index to Legal Periodicals

Indexes to Citations

Bluebook T1 – Remember new edition! Bieber’s Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations

http://www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/

Internet Sources

Google Scholar Google Books Fdsys-legislative material in PDF format

Search by citation General keyword search

Library Services

Interlibrary loan (ILL) Make sure that it exists as spelled-use Worldcat and Google Books If it’s a journal article, check Journal Finder Verify with a reference librarian and get the OCLC number for the item. Give the information to an editor. A research editor will request the interlibrary

loan (ILL). We do not ILL cases or newspaper articles

Axinn document delivery Use this service for print journals held by Axinn Library. Make sure to include that you need the title page, title page verso and table of

contents in your request. Limit 3 article requests per form submission. Approximate turnaround time is 2 business days.

Research Guides

Hofstra Journal Cite Checking

Georgetown http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/research/index.cfm